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Samsung in effort to have new memory card format

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TAIPEI: The Universal Flash Storage (UFS) interface standard will soon have a new version 1.0 by the first half of 2011. Samsung has already kicked off a move in this direction, and it is seen as an attempt to push a new memory card format to compete with eMMC and SD. Samsung would be standardizing a command set required to be supported by all embedded and removable memory card interfaces.

Sources quoted by DigiTimes, however, said that the upcoming common flash storage specification might not pose a challenge to the SD format in the short term. They added that it could however be a challenge to the eMMC format. Now that the initiative is kicked off, Samsung has joined hands with Micron Technology, Nokia, Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics in its bid toward standardization for the new specification. The company is taking the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association route in this regard.

The report added that the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association had already announced that the association would publish its Universal Flash Storage (UFS) standard by the end of the current year. The new standard could well be seen as a next-gen specification, which could enable better efficiencies when flash memory is used in products.

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